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Club Membership in Ride with GPS

The BBC Executive Board is pleased to announce that it has recently decided to provide a new benefit to the Club’s membership by purchasing a club subscription to “Ride with GPS” (RwGPS), a route mapping internet site. This is not a replacement to the current club's cue library, but rather an added benefit.

Many of you have probably been directed to this site as some of our ride leaders have been posting such links on club ride announcements. By subscribing as a Club to this innovative technology, we gain a place to store as many routes as ride leaders wish to create and have all routes viewable and easily found on our club account.

The BBC Executive Board is pleased to announce the arrival of the newly designed 50th Anniversary cycling kits.

As an added benefit to BBC members only, the Executive Board has decided in its last meeting to substantially subsidize the kits to offer them below cost at a remarkable price, particularly when comparing their quality to competitive brands. These kits are made of high quality material and cut, designed by Jason Kamps of Woof Cycling, and manufactured by Primal Wear as a "sport cut." Jerseys are with full length zipper. In addition to short-sleeve tops, women's jerseys are also available in a sleeveless version.

The cost to BBC members will be as follows:
(non-members need to join the BBC in order to receive any Club membership benefits)

Complete kit (jersey & short or bib-short): $100

Jersey only: $45

Short or Bib-Short only: $65

The BBC treasurer John Isaacs is stocking these kits and will handle sales.

Our 50th Anniversary Ride and Celebration held on June 2nd was a big success and attended by many!

Boy oh boy, were we lucky with the weather?! Just as WBAL had forecasted, rain didn’t come until later in the afternoon. It was heart-warming to see so many riders show up on such an iffy-weather day and to see so many sporting old club jerseys. We counted over 110 riders!

A special thanks to my Co-Chair, Patrick “Pat” Lapensee for all the time and work that went into his delicious smoked salmon, pork and brisket, and planning an amazing feast for all of us. We got a chuckle when he arrived early in the morning with lots of smoke billowing from his smoker on the back of his pick-up truck. (It was a sight—you had to be there.) Pat was very helpful in planning the event and never lost his optimism in the midst of unchartered water, for which I was very grateful.

A big thanks to all of our volunteers! An event of this scope and size couldn’t have been done without them.

We are grateful to St. John’s Church, Western Run Parish, on Butler Road for allowing us to host our event on its beautiful grounds, and to Reverend Joe Cochran who gave us a beautiful prayer at the start of our first riders.

Special attendees were Hall of Famers: Bob Carson, Mary Menne, Evie Reinsel and Al Sinsky and Bob Willasch. We had a nice showing by Baltimore Youth Cycling (a group supported by BBC’s small grant program) and enjoyed seeing many junior racers, their parents and coaches, which included the grandson of one of our club’s founding fathers, Wayne Rodgers. Wayne’s grandson, Brydon, did him proud by being one of the first to arrive with his dad and doing the hardest and fastest ride of the day, the 50-miler.

Here’s to 50 amazing years of our wonderful BBC and here’s to the next 50 years and a new generation of riders!